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" And babes, sweet-smiling babes, our bed. How should I love the pretty creatures, While round my knees they fondly clung! To see them look their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue! And when with envy time transported Shall think... "
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets - Page 120
by George Gilfillan - 1860
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Miscellaneous Poems: By Several Hands

David Lewis - 1726 - 350 pages
...Mother's Tongue,! VIII. And, when with Envy Time tranfported Shall think to rob us of our Joys; You'll, in your Girls, again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my Boys. On two Twin Sifters who died at the fame Time, and were buried in one Grave. FAir Marble, tell to future...
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Miscellaneous Poems: By Several Hands

David Lewis - 1726 - 346 pages
...Mother's Tongue! VIII. And, when with Envy Time tranfported Shall think to rob us of our Joys; You'll, in your Girls, again be courted, • And I'll go wooing in my Boys. On two Twin Sifters -who died at the fame Time, and were buried in one Grave* FAir Marble, tell to...
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 30

1768 - 750 pages
...their mother's tongue! And when with envy Time tranfportcd, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. Imitation of tlic Flfß Ode of Anacreon. TO deeds of glory I would tune, And touch the trembling chord;...
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Preface. A historical essay on the origin and progress of national song ...

1783 - 366 pages
...their mothers tongue ! And when with envy Time tranfported, Shall think to rob us of our joys ; You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. SONG SONG LXVIH. BY MR. GARRICK*. YE fair married dames, who fo often deplore, That a lover once blefs'd...
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Miscellanies in Prose and Verse Intended as a Specimen of the Types: At the ...

John Walter - 1785 - 258 pages
...mother's tongue. S> And when with envy time tranfported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. THE THE FIRE - SIDE *. DEAR Chloe, while the bufy crowd. The vain, the wealthy, and the proud, In folly's...
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Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards:: Preserved, by Tradition ...

Edward Jones - 1794 - 208 pages
...their Mothers tongue. And when with envy time tranfported, Shall think to rob us of our joys ; You'll in your Girls, again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my Boys . Moderato above Vulume of Mifcf liant uns Foem to coniuffal love is a Iran fin ti θμ from the Welfh;...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 11

1808 - 532 pages
...following stanza, ' And when with envy Time tranfported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be Courted, , And I'll go wooing in my boys ' — has so much simplicity and merit, as to make us regret it should be omitted in any compilation...
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The Literary Magazine, and American Register, Volume 2

Charles Brockden Brown - 1804 - 740 pages
...second family. He may address his Winifredain the words of that beautiful address to conjugal love : And when with envy Time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'il go wooing in my boys. A man who delays the matrimonial...
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Selection of Poems ...

1808 - 496 pages
...see 'ein look their mother's features, To hear 'em lisp their mother's tongue. « ,'>V' /''•.,.',, And when, with envy, time transported Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I go wooing with my boys. Cooper's Letters 'on Taste. ON...
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Specimens of the British poets, Volume 2

British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...they fondly clung, To see them look their mother's features, To hear 'em lisp their mother's tongue ! And when with envy time transported Shall think to rob us of our joys, ^iu TO A LADY. 1731. ts of a friend, Belinda, hear, -sT rojfhly kind to please a lady's ear, - IK 3-ueries...
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